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竭尽全力

jié jìn quán lì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 竭盡全力

竭尽全力 (jié jìn quán lì) means "to spare no effort (idiom); to do one's utmost". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 竭尽全力 means

1. idiomto spare no effort; to do one's utmost

The characters in 竭尽全力

• 竭jiéto exhaust
• 尽jìnto use up; to exhaust; to end
• 全quánall; whole; entire
• 力lìpower; force; strength

Example sentences

• 汤姆竭尽全力追赶。
  Tom did his best to catch up.
• 他竭尽全力地讨好他老婆。
  Tā jiéjìnquánlì de tǎohǎo tā lǎopó.
  He bent over backward to please his wife.
• 汤姆和玛丽竭尽全力帮助约翰。
  Tāngmǔ hé Mǎlì jiéjìnquánlì bāngzhù Yuēhàn.
  Tom and Mary did all they could to help John do that.
• 医生虽然已经竭尽全力，但不久病人还是死了。
  Yīshēng suīrán yǐjīng jiéjìnquánlì, dàn bù jiǔbìng rén háishi sǐ le.
  All the doctor's efforts were in vain and the man soon died.
• 他为了活下去竭尽全力，所以他从来不想谈起这件事。
  He did everything to be able to survive, hence he never wants to talk about it.

Where 竭尽全力 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jiè (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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